If you are a Green Bay Packers fan, a St. Louis Rams fan or maybe even a South Dakota State Jackrabbits fan, you know the name Adam Timmerman. The Iowa farm boy lived the dream of so many farm boys, growing up to play professional football including four Super Bowls. Timmerman retired from football a couple of years ago and has returned to the 1,500 acre crop, beef and hog farm at Cherokee, Iowa. “It was always my plan to get back to the farm, of course I didn’t think the NFL career would last twelve years, I thought maybe a year or two.”
Timmerman spoke to the Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin annual business conference on Tuesday night. He told the partisan-Packer crowd about his background and how he came to be a part of the championship-caliber team built in Green Bay in the 1990’s. “I was maybe too young to fully realize how awesome it was,” says Timmerman, “When you think about all the things that have to come together in a team sport to win it all.” He gave credit to the leadership of Reggie White and Brett Favre along with the guidance of a coaching staff which would spawn a number of NFL head coaches in the next few years. “You can’t have just one great head coach or one great quarterback…there’s so many working parts.”
After the second Super Bowl with the Packers, Timmerman, like Holmgren and many of the assistant coaches left for other opportunities. Timmerman signed with the Rams placing him with another team with a great coaching staff building to the Super Bowl. By this time he had a better understanding of what it takes to get to the top and appreciated the opportunities he had. Of course the quarterback on those Rams teams was Kurt Warner, I asked him when he saw Warner back in the Super Bowl this year if he had a desire to suit-up and give it another try? “No, I did not think that but I was happy for him, it was a great game, I wish they could have won.”
He says the most important thing he learned in football is the importance of teamwork and that is what he talked to the dairy producers about on Tuesday. “Basically, be focused, use your talents, continue to learn and have a passion for your profession.” Timmerman says while he was playing for the Packers and the Rams, he enjoyed going back to the farm whenever he could, “It kept my mind grounded, I didn’t forget the value of a dollar and of hard work.” He says that is why he moved back to northwest Iowa so his kids could learn those values as well. He coached his son’s third & fourth grade football team this year; he says right now his son is not really interested in being a lineman. “He has dreams of aspirations of something greater than a right guard!” Timmerman says he does pull out the Super Bowl rings once in a while to show his son, “He does like that.”
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